A woman who wants a child doesn't sleep in her clothes.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about clothes, sleep, children, woman
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When a man curses his own child it is a terrible thing.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about things, children, man
Where your mother is born, you can't call anyone a child.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about children, mother
He who feeds the child must be allowed to lick his fingers.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about children
A child who knows how to wash his hands will eat with the chiefs.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about children
A child who is fearless is going to bring tears to his mother's eyes.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about tears, eyes, children, mother
Train a child the way he should go and make sure you also go the same way.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about trains, children
A child can play with its mother's breasts, but not its father's testicles.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about children, mother
A child doesn't breast-feed from a stepmother if its mother is still alive.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about children, mother
When a four-year child is still crawling instead of walking it is time to cry out.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about children, time
When a blind man is happy he gives money to his child to buy kerosene for his lamp.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about happiness, commerce, blind, children, money, man
A child's hand is not burned by hot yam which is placed into his palm by his mother.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about children, mother
What you help a child to love can be more important than what you help him to learn.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about help, children, love
A child's fingers are not scalded by a piece of hot yam which his mother puts into his palm.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about children, mother
No matter how big a child is, he cannot deny that he was once carried on the back of a woman.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about children, woman
A child who protested when being stripped on the back by its mother, it's humbled by the scorching sun when left to walk.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about being, sun, children, mother
The child is capable of splitting open the snail, not the tortoise.
Proverbs and old sayings about children
A child who is to be successful is not to be reared exclusively on a bed of down.
Proverbs and old sayings about children
A burnt child dreads the fire.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about children, fire, fire brigade, americans
To spoil a child is to maim it a bit.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about children, americans
